A new edition of the Russian Nobelist\'s collection of novellas, short stories, and Prose Poems Stories and Prose Poems collects twenty-two works of wide-ranging style and character from the Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose shorter pieces showcase the extraordinary mastery of language that places him among the greatest Russian Prose writers of the twentieth century.
In September 1991, the Soviet government dismissed treason charges against him
Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994..
Solzhenitsyn and his wife and children moved to the United States in 1976.
In 1974, Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his Soviet citizenship, and forcibly flown to Frankfurt.
The publication in the West of his other novels and, in particular, of The Gulag Archipelago , brought retaliation from the authorities.
Although permitted to publish One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962--which remained his only full-length work to have appeared in his homeland until 1990--Solzhenitsyn was by 1969 expelled from the Writers\' Union.
In February 1945, while he was captain of a reconnaissance battery of the Soviet Army, he was arrested and sentenced to an eight-year term in a labor camp and permanent internal exile, which was cut short by Khrushchev\'s reforms, allowing him to return from Kazakhstan to Central Russia in 1956.
About the Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature.
But readers who best know Solzhenitsyn through his novels will be delighted to discover the astonishing group of sixteen "Prose poems." In these works of varying lengths--some as short as an aphorism--Solzhenitsyn distills the joy and bitterness of Russia\'s fate into language of unrivaled lyrical purity.
When the two superb Stories "Matryona\'s House" and "An Incident at Krechetovka Station" were first published in Russia in 1963, the Moscow Literary Gazette, the mouthpiece of the Soviet literary establishment, wrote: "His talent is so individual and so striking that from now on nothing that comes from his pen can fail to excite the liveliest interest." The novella For the Good of the Cause and the short story "Zakhar-the-Pouch" in particular--both published in the Soviet Union before Solzhenitsyn\'s exile--fearlessly address the deadening stranglehold of Soviet bureaucracy and the scandalous neglect of Russia\'s cultural heritage.
A new edition of the Russian Nobelist\'s collection of novellas, short stories, and Prose Poems Stories and Prose Poems collects twenty-two works of wide-ranging style and character from the Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose shorter pieces showcase the extraordinary mastery of language that places him among the greatest Russian Prose writers of the twentieth century
